Bernie Valdez - Denver, CO - Etched in Stone on Waymarking.com

This Memorial is located at 17th Street near Tremont Place and the Brown Palace.
plaque is embedded in the pavement near the Brown Palace Hotel and reads:

"HUMAN RIGHTS HERO
'We have to organize.
The best way to make
the system work for us
is cooperation.'

Bernie Valdez (1912 - 1997)
Co-founder of Latin American Education
Foundation and the latin American
Research and Service Agency, and
Head of the Colorado Coalition
for Dropout Prevention"

The edge of the circular plaque reads:

"WALLSTREET OF THE ROCKIES
SEVENTEENTH STREET
DENVER, COLORADO"

A brief obituary for Valdez can be read at (visit link)

Address: at 17th Street near Tremont Place in Denver, Colorado Website: [Web Link]

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